It’s time to see how can we build a Flash Facebook application. What we are going to do is a Flash movie to be embedded in a Facebook application, able to interact with the user by publishing notes and stories on the wall. The first thing we need is the official Facebook Actionscript API. This … Creating a Flash Facebook application with the Facebook Actionscript API
Are you looking for a payment method completely embedded into your Flash game/app? Then Social Gold might be your choice. I’ve been in contact for a while with Vikas Gupta and Michael Haswell, and I am sharing with you some relevant information about this brand new service: Jambool, Inc., operator of leading virtual currency and … Social Gold releases Secure In-Game Payments for Flash
Only 7 games this week, a lot of useless Halloween games flooded the entries. Anyway: Drop3: Interesting mix between Tetris and “match shapes with the same color” game with real world Physics. What I liked: quite original idea Programming difficulty: Box2D and contact listener. 1/5 Sniper Year 2: playing as a sniper, you have to … Triqui’s picks #3
Time to add some new features to our Stabilize! clone we started in this post. The features we’ll add this time are: * Restricted area in which you can drop crates * “Real” crates, made with a movieclip, take the place of the boxes you can draw with the mouse As you can see, the … Creation of a Flash Stabilize! clone using Box2D – part 2
In Triqui’s picks 1 I told you Stabilize! is a good game to clone using Box2D. And I would use this post to focus on another thing too… it’s about recycling. I mean… once you code for a while, or follow developer’s blogs like this one providing a lot of source codes, probably most of … Creation of a Flash Stabilize! clone using Box2D – part 1
Let’s see the games I featured on triqui.com this week: Zombie Taxi 2: Half Grand Theft Auto (the fist release), half Carmageddon, you have to rescue the people in the city before they become infected. What I liked: the overall experience Programming difficulty: Making a really clean and complete game is never easy. 4/5 Globulous … Triqui’s picks #2
Season games are games based upon Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, and so on. Normally they are classic games with a season theme, just like my two ones, Christmas Couples and Halloween Couples. The question is: is it worth it to work on season games? If you read this post, you can read it’s not … About season games
Some time ago I released SamePhysics, my first Box2D game, a self-sponsored game with a rotating banner placed in the lower play area. I decided to rotate five different banners, four of them link to my sites/games and one was sold to Rotten Tomato Games. I published some considerations after 75,000 views Let’s see what … In-game banners, after 1,000,000 plays
Starting from this week, I’ll show you the new games I publish on triqui.com. I always try to pick games with interesting gameplay and in this post I’ll spend a couple of words from a PROgrammer point of view. Stabilize!: this is the kind of Flash game I love: clean design, easy to play, no … Triqui’s Picks #1
It’s time to create a rope with Box2d. To start defining a rope, we’ll start from something similar: a chain. A chain is a series of two or more connected links. The smaller and closer the links, the more flexible the chain. So we can define a rope as a “perfect chain”, with infinite links. … Basic Box2D rope
In Box2D, normally every object collides with other objects in the stage. But sometimes we may need a way to make an object collide with only certain objects, ignoring the rest. I am not talking about sensors, but real objects that won’t collide with certain other objects. This feature can be done with filtering. Collision … Introducing Box2D filtering
